Lake City High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Lake City, MI)

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small spoonfuls of cooked corn and bread, not to exceed one-half slice. A cup of tea. Supper-One4half cup of milk with eight grams of salt pork and one cookie. This is a converse of the preceeding number. Muscles and organs have to be rested to expand and grow. Sherman: She is attacked by dropsy to a certain extent. Symptoms are quite noticeable in oratory class. High blood pres- sure in the face and iinds herself unable to- talk. I think a trip to padded cell number 999, Newberry, where there is a specialty doctor would do her some good. B, Runyan: She has a weak nervous system or else St. Vitus dance because she is constantly wanting to move. Symptoms are shown when she wants to go to Jennings on a sleigh load or to Scott's hall to a dance. They may also be noticed in the senior room some times. I would prescribe some kind of sleeping pow- der that would make her go to bed early and stay there until morning. There seems to be something wrong with W. W. Allen, but it is hard to describe it. It isn't pneumonia but it is new motions. Symptoms were noticed on some of the basket ball trips, espe- cially Mesick and Tustin. The only directions that he could fol- low that would help him would be go easy, Allen, on the new motions. -39-

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DISPENSARY By Cressie Barner. Jazz Allen:-has a sort of a disease called the sleepjitus. Common symptoms are his usual tardy marks from five to twenty minutes every morning. The only remedy I can find and, I guess it is a good one, is an automatic bed. This bed may be set by a clock so that at an appointed hour it will uncoil and tumble Jazz out early enough to arrive at school in time. The scheme is for the bed to uncoil at five o'clock A. M. and not close until 6 P. M. ' You all know how terrible the disease of tuberculosis is and how many people die annually from it. Well, there is one of these Seniors who is terribly afflicted and will have to have an antidote. This is Scotty. Her disease is a new variety called the Black Jack consumption. The only symptoms are noticeable when she is being watched by Miss Fox. She instantly consumes all the gum in her mouth. I Tate's disease is the awful Audley py trods of the Runnets. He will never be any better than he is. That's why he is all the time trying to celebrate. , Renowden-, The diseased is constantly suffering from the reditis. l He is also constantly hampered by the ringing of May bells. CMabelsD. Miss Brown :-The symptoms of her disease are always quite noticeable. It being what is commonly called Excess Avoirdu- poise. Prescription :-A Diet. This being composed of the fol- lowing: Breakfast-Ham and eggs, toast, breakfast foods, coffee but little milk. Dinner-Pork roast, mutton, beefsteak, boiled veal, mashed potatoes with gravy, celery and onions, pie, pudding and ice cream and cake. Supper-Boiled cabbage, macaroni and cheese, undressed spuds, potato salads, fruit salads. In each case she may have all the bread she wants and there is no check on the candy or fruits. The main object is to lessen the flesh by the ex- tra working of the muscles which are under the obligation of car- rying this load around. Next is A. Hinkley. Through the excess of hard work and study Archie grew to be a small man. The cause of this was the property the skin possessed of not being able to stretch as Archie wanted to grow. A diet may be prescribed here also. Breakfast will consist of a cup of water and three crackers. Dinner-Two ' -3 3-

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LAKE CITY HIGH SCHOOL. fBy G. S. Stout, Secretary of School Board. . The first school in what is now Lake City was organized in 1873, and was the third or perhaps the second in the county, the pioneer honors going to Vogel Center. Daniel Reeder donated the site, which was just back of where the Presbyterian church now stands. The first school building was erected that year, and was a small one-story building, boarded up and down with rough lumber, inside and out, and the walls filled in between with saw- dust. If memory serves, the inside walls were whitewashed. The desks were built by a local carpenter, and were of the style used in many rural schools fifty years ago. ' The first school was taught by Rev. John' J. Quick, and three pupils were enrolled, namely, Orillia and John Reeder and Ida May Pillen. The studies followed'in those days were con- fined quite closely to three R's, and it is likely this was no excep- tion. This building served until about 1879 or 1880, when the building was erected which is now known as the U. B, church building, and was built by a real carpenter, boasted paint and a slate' blackboard, and was seated with factory built desks, and was considered very fine indeed, although only one room in size. This was outgrown in a few years, and various makeshifts in the way of an addition and a small separate building were utilized, until in 1893 a two-story, four-room frame structure was built on the south half of the present site. This building burned in the spring of 1904, and that summer the present building was erected. The organization was changed to a graded district in 1891 and a ten-grade school was established, and the first class of two graduated in 1893. Two more grades were added in 1905, but the first 12th grade class was not graduated until the spring of 1907. Until the school year of 1912, there were very few non-resi- dent pupils enrolled, and the enrollment in high school had crept up by slow degrees to around fifty pupils, at times, But in 1912, pupils from the rural districts began coming, and the enrollment went up at a bound to 80 and 90, and in a year or so more passed the one hundred mark, where it still remains, varying usually from one hundred to one hundred and fifteen, and of these from forty to fifty are from other districts. In passing it might be added that the rural pupils carry off their full share and perhaps more than their number warrant, of the honors, both in scholar- -40-